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{"title":"Alternative Tests for the Selection of Model Variables","authors":"N. Mass, P. Senge","doi":"10.1109/TSMC.1978.4309998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.1978.4309998","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contrasts two approaches to testing the importance of model variables: single-equation statistical tests, such as are used in regression analysis, and model-behavior tests. The paper attempts to show that tests which analyze the impact of individual variables on model behavior are better suited, both theoretically and operationally, to the task of selecting model variables. Conversely, the analysis shows that statistical tests should not be viewed as tests of model specification per se, but as tests of a particular type of data usefulness: they warn the modeler when available data do not permit accurate estimation of a model parameter. However, as a detailed example illustrates, a model relationship may be difficult to estimate yet extremely important for overall behavior. The paper concludes by summarizing two recent applications of model-behavior testing to analyze alternative business-cycle theories and alternative models for capital investment.","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"450-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78932329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Operations Research","authors":"K. Swarup, P. K. Gupta, M. Mohan, G. Nair","doi":"10.1109/tsmc.1980.4308489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.1980.4308489","url":null,"abstract":"OPRE 6250 Global Supply Chain Management (2 semester hours) Executive Education Course. This course addresses the design and management of global supply chain including international sourcing, integration of suppliers and distribution channels. Prerequisite: OPRE 62 01 or OPRE 6302 or consent of instructor. (2-0) Y OPRE 6271 Project Overview, Strategic and Process Management (2 semester hours) Introduces the project lifecycle, typical project management processes, leadership and teaming in project management, the relevance of business process analysis, strategic alignment of projects, and financial considerations in project selection. (2-0) R OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Quantitative Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Business (3 semester hours) Introduction to statistical and probabilistic methods and theory applicable to situations faced by managers. Topics include: data presentation and summarization, regression analysis, fundamental probability theory and random variables, introductory decision analysis, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and One Way ANOVA (Some sections of this class may require a laptop computer). (3-0) S OPRE 6302 Operations Management (3 semester hours) Operations Management integrates all of the activities and processes that are necessary to provide products and services. This course overviews methods and models that help managers make better operating decisions over time. How these methods will allow firms to operate both manufacturing and service facilities in order to compete in a global environment will also be discussed. Prerequisite: OPRE 6301 (3-0) S OPRE 6303 Quantitative Foundations of Business (3 semester hours) This course discusses the applications of some basic mathematical concepts necessary for the business environment. Students are introduced to selected topics, including those in college algebra, matrix algebra, calculus, and optimization, and their usage in the context of managerial decision-making. MS Excel is used to illustrate and understand the core concepts. (3-0) S OPRE 6311 Game Theory (3 semester hours) Two person zero-sum and nonzero-sum games; Nash equilibrium; use of LP and Complementarity, N-person games; core, nucleolus, stable sets, etc. Applications to market equilibrium problems. (3-0) R OPRE 6325 (HMGT 6325) Healthcare Operations Management (3 semester hours) Explores how effectively managing and continuously improving the end-to-end heal care supply chain provides a competitive advantage. Topics include supply chain fundamentals, key players in the health care supply chain and their challenges, how the health care supply chain works, impact of technology on supply chain performance, and lean six sigma methodology. Simulations and case studies will reinforce the learning. (3-0) T OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics (3 semester hours) This course explains the concepts of effective spreadsheet design and model building utilizing the electronic spreadsheet as the ","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":"21 1","pages":"280-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79984748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimization of neural networks using variable structure systems.","authors":"Seyed Alireza Mohseni, Ai Hui Tan","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197610","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new mixed training algorithm consisting of error backpropagation (EBP) and variable structure systems (VSSs) to optimize parameter updating of neural networks. For the optimization of the number of neurons in the hidden layer, a new term based on the output of the hidden layer is added to the cost function as a penalty term to make optimal use of hidden units related to weights corresponding to each unit in the hidden layer. VSS is used to control the dynamic model of the training process, whereas EBP attempts to minimize the cost function. In addition to the analysis of the imposed dynamics of the EBP technique, the global stability of the mixed training methodology and constraints on the design parameters are considered. The advantages of the proposed technique are guaranteed convergence, improved robustness, and lower sensitivity to initial weights of the neural network.","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1645-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197610","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39972157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gait recognition across various walking speeds using higher order shape configuration based on a differential composition model.","authors":"Worapan Kusakunniran,&nbsp;Qiang Wu,&nbsp;Jian Zhang,&nbsp;Hongdong Li","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197823","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gait has been known as an effective biometric feature to identify a person at a distance. However, variation of walking speeds may lead to significant changes to human walking patterns. It causes many difficulties for gait recognition. A comprehensive analysis has been carried out in this paper to identify such effects. Based on the analysis, Procrustes shape analysis is adopted for gait signature description and relevant similarity measurement. To tackle the challenges raised by speed change, this paper proposes a higher order shape configuration for gait shape description, which deliberately conserves discriminative information in the gait signatures and is still able to tolerate the varying walking speed. Instead of simply measuring the similarity between two gaits by treating them as two unified objects, a differential composition model (DCM) is constructed. The DCM differentiates the different effects caused by walking speed changes on various human body parts. In the meantime, it also balances well the different discriminabilities of each body part on the overall gait similarity measurements. In this model, the Fisher discriminant ratio is adopted to calculate weights for each body part. Comprehensive experiments based on widely adopted gait databases demonstrate that our proposed method is efficient for cross-speed gait recognition and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1654-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2197823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39972270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating instance selection, instance weighting, and feature weighting for nearest neighbor classifiers by coevolutionary algorithms.","authors":"Joaquín Derrac,&nbsp;Isaac Triguero,&nbsp;Salvador Garcia,&nbsp;Francisco Herrera","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191953","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cooperative coevolution is a successful trend of evolutionary computation which allows us to define partitions of the domain of a given problem, or to integrate several related techniques into one, by the use of evolutionary algorithms. It is possible to apply it to the development of advanced classification methods, which integrate several machine learning techniques into a single proposal. A novel approach integrating instance selection, instance weighting, and feature weighting into the framework of a coevolutionary model is presented in this paper. We compare it with a wide range of evolutionary and nonevolutionary related methods, in order to show the benefits of the employment of coevolution to apply the techniques considered simultaneously. The results obtained, contrasted through nonparametric statistical tests, show that our proposal outperforms other methods in the comparison, thus becoming a suitable tool in the task of enhancing the nearest neighbor classifier.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1383-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191953","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40180922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A decentralized mechanism for improving the functional robustness of distribution networks.","authors":"Benyun Shi,&nbsp;Jiming Liu","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191774","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most real-world distribution systems can be modeled as distribution networks, where a commodity can flow from source nodes to sink nodes through junction nodes. One of the fundamental characteristics of distribution networks is the functional robustness, which reflects the ability of maintaining its function in the face of internal or external disruptions. In view of the fact that most distribution networks do not have any centralized control mechanisms, we consider the problem of how to improve the functional robustness in a decentralized way. To achieve this goal, we study two important problems: 1) how to formally measure the functional robustness, and 2) how to improve the functional robustness of a network based on the local interaction of its nodes. First, we derive a utility function in terms of network entropy to characterize the functional robustness of a distribution network. Second, we propose a decentralized network pricing mechanism, where each node need only communicate with its distribution neighbors by sending a \"price\" signal to its upstream neighbors and receiving \"price\" signals from its downstream neighbors. By doing so, each node can determine its outflows by maximizing its own payoff function. Our mathematical analysis shows that the decentralized pricing mechanism can produce results equivalent to those of an ideal centralized maximization with complete information. Finally, to demonstrate the properties of our mechanism, we carry out a case study on the U.S. natural gas distribution network. The results validate the convergence and effectiveness of our mechanism when comparing it with an existing algorithm.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1369-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40459902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On combining multiple features for cartoon character retrieval and clip synthesis.","authors":"Jun Yu,&nbsp;Dongquan Liu,&nbsp;Dacheng Tao,&nbsp;Hock Soon Seah","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do we retrieve cartoon characters accurately? Or how to synthesize new cartoon clips smoothly and efficiently from the cartoon library? Both questions are important for animators and cartoon enthusiasts to design and create new cartoons by utilizing existing cartoon materials. The first key issue to answer those questions is to find a proper representation that describes the cartoon character effectively. In this paper, we consider multiple features from different views, i.e., color histogram, Hausdorff edge feature, and skeleton feature, to represent cartoon characters with different colors, shapes, and gestures. Each visual feature reflects a unique characteristic of a cartoon character, and they are complementary to each other for retrieval and synthesis. However, how to combine the three visual features is the second key issue of our application. By simply concatenating them into a long vector, it will end up with the so-called \"curse of dimensionality,\" let alone their heterogeneity embedded in different visual feature spaces. Here, we introduce a semisupervised multiview subspace learning (semi-MSL) algorithm, to encode different features in a unified space. Specifically, under the patch alignment framework, semi-MSL uses the discriminative information from labeled cartoon characters in the construction of local patches where the manifold structure revealed by unlabeled cartoon characters is utilized to capture the geometric distribution. The experimental evaluations based on both cartoon character retrieval and clip synthesis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for cartoon application. Moreover, additional results of content-based image retrieval on benchmark data suggest the generality of semi-MSL for other applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1413-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40548690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracking control of a closed-chain five-bar robot with two degrees of freedom by integration of an approximation-based approach and mechanical design.","authors":"Long Cheng,&nbsp;Zeng-Guang Hou,&nbsp;Min Tan,&nbsp;W J Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The trajectory tracking problem of a closed-chain five-bar robot is studied in this paper. Based on an error transformation function and the backstepping technique, an approximation-based tracking algorithm is proposed, which can guarantee the control performance of the robotic system in both the stable and transient phases. In particular, the overshoot, settling time, and final tracking error of the robotic system can be all adjusted by properly setting the parameters in the error transformation function. The radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is used to compensate the complicated nonlinear terms in the closed-loop dynamics of the robotic system. The approximation error of the RBFNN is only required to be bounded, which simplifies the initial \"trail-and-error\" configuration of the neural network. Illustrative examples are given to verify the theoretical analysis and illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Finally, it is also shown that the proposed approximation-based controller can be simplified by a smart mechanical design of the closed-chain robot, which demonstrates the promise of the integrated design and control philosophy.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1470-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192270","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40180924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subject-specific and pose-oriented facial features for face recognition across poses.","authors":"Ping-Han Lee,&nbsp;Gee-Sern Hsu,&nbsp;Yun-Wen Wang,&nbsp;Yi-Ping Hung","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191773","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most face recognition scenarios assume that frontal faces or mug shots are available for enrollment to the database, faces of other poses are collected in the probe set. Given a face from the probe set, one needs to determine whether a match in the database exists. This is under the assumption that in forensic applications, most suspects have their mug shots available in the database, and face recognition aims at recognizing the suspects when their faces of various poses are captured by a surveillance camera. This paper considers a different scenario: given a face with multiple poses available, which may or may not include a mug shot, develop a method to recognize the face with poses different from those captured. That is, given two disjoint sets of poses of a face, one for enrollment and the other for recognition, this paper reports a method best for handling such cases. The proposed method includes feature extraction and classification. For feature extraction, we first cluster the poses of each subject's face in the enrollment set into a few pose classes and then decompose the appearance of the face in each pose class using Embedded Hidden Markov Model, which allows us to define a set of subject-specific and pose-priented (SSPO) facial components for each subject. For classification, an Adaboost weighting scheme is used to fuse the component classifiers with SSPO component features. The proposed method is proven to outperform other approaches, including a component-based classifier with local facial features cropped manually, in an extensive performance evaluation study.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1357-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2191773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40550677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Robust multiperson detection and tracking for mobile service and social robots.","authors":"Liyuan Li,&nbsp;Shuicheng Yan,&nbsp;Xinguo Yu,&nbsp;Yeow Kee Tan,&nbsp;Haizhou Li","doi":"10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper proposes an efficient system which integrates multiple vision models for robust multiperson detection and tracking for mobile service and social robots in public environments. The core technique is a novel maximum likelihood (ML)-based algorithm which combines the multimodel detections in mean-shift tracking. First, a likelihood probability which integrates detections and similarity to local appearance is defined. Then, an expectation-maximization (EM)-like mean-shift algorithm is derived under the ML framework. In each iteration, the E-step estimates the associations to the detections, and the M-step locates the new position according to the ML criterion. To be robust to the complex crowded scenarios for multiperson tracking, an improved sequential strategy to perform the mean-shift tracking is proposed. Under this strategy, human objects are tracked sequentially according to their priority order. To balance the efficiency and robustness for real-time performance, at each stage, the first two objects from the list of the priority order are tested, and the one with the higher score is selected. The proposed method has been successfully implemented on real-world service and social robots. The vision system integrates stereo-based and histograms-of-oriented-gradients-based human detections, occlusion reasoning, and sequential mean-shift tracking. Various examples to show the advantages and robustness of the proposed system for multiperson tracking from mobile robots are presented. Quantitative evaluations on the performance of multiperson tracking are also performed. Experimental results indicate that significant improvements have been achieved by using the proposed method.</p>","PeriodicalId":55006,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"1398-412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2192107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40188760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}